Fantasy World-Building - (Dover Art Instruction) by Mark Nelson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"For illustrators, game designers, and visual creatives of all kinds"--Cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>When artists and designers explore or create a fictional setting, the milieu must be completely fleshed out, explained, and designed. In this book, comic and gaming art veteran Mark A. Nelson explores and demonstrates his methods for fashioning visually stunning, believable environments for fantasy creatures and characters. Scores of images and step-by-step examples illustrate how variation and experimentation lead to fresh, original designs for otherworldly beings, their environments, and their stories.<br /> Nelson discusses how to find ideas and borrow from history to add the strength of realism to a fantasy world. In describing the best ways to establish a habitat, he offers specifics about climate, terrain, flora, and wildlife. He shares insights into founding societies in terms of their means of survival, manner of warfare, spiritual practices, style of dress, and levels of technology. All visual creatives who work with imaginative material -- illustrators, comic artists, and writers -- will take a lively interest in this source of inspiration and practical knowledge.<br /><br /> "In sixteen breezy-yet-surprisingly-concise chapters he covers everything from visual problem solving to spirituality to warfare to transportation, not with the idea of giving the reader lessons to copy by rote but rather as prompts to develop their own original concepts. If I were suggesting three books every budding artist should have at their fingertips they would be <i>Figure Drawing for All It's Worth</i> by Andrew Loomis, <i>Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist</i> by James Gurney, and, most definitely, Mark's <i>Fantasy World-Building</i>." -- Muddy Colors<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Artist Mark Nelson specializes in designs for role-playing games and comic books. Since 1985, his work has appeared in many Dungeons & Dragons books and <i>Dragon </i>magazine. He has also produced artwork for the games Villains and Vigilantes, Earthdawn and Shadowrun, and Orpheus, and he has illustrated cards for the collectible game Magic: The Gathering.
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